Author Note: Hello everypony, it's been too long, quiet literary I mean, I was gone for who knows how long…anyway on with chapter 10 I guess. Chapter 10 takes place at the beginning of season 2.

Chapter 10: Return of a God Part 1

There he was the god of chaos himself, Discord. His entire body was composed of different parts of animals found all across Equestria when they said he was the god of chaos, he played the role all to easily, I then began to wonder if it was the best idea to release the god that easily defeat both Princess of Equestria, took over all of Equestria and plunged it into a state of chaos, only to be stopped the elements by a slim chance of fate. I then shook the though away, "Just do what your told, don't ask questions, just get it done." I quietly told myself as I prepared the magic required to release this enemy of state. I Steeled myself for this, I knew that when I performed this it would consume all my energy in a sudden burst of magic if I was lucky it would render me weaker, but at the very worst I could be knocked out in the middle of the stone gardens, the spell could fail, making this whole quest pointless. I then aimed my horn at the god of chaos as my horn lit up and a bright light filled darkness I blacked out, as I heard a very sinister laugh.

{Princess Luna's POV}

I walked though out the halls of the castle alone, with the occasional guard or servant performing the night shift, this gave me time to think, "Did I over react by placing two whole squads of royal guards to guard one stature?" I thought to myself …"No I didn't over react this pony is a threat to our way of life he must be stopped" I said to myself after convincing myself that my actions, were reasonable a large flash of light filled the castle blinding me. When I opened my eyes I tried to find the source of the light I saw it coming from the stone garden I gasped as I rushed to find my sister to warn her of the coming danger.

Then a large flash appeared in front of me, it was him, Discord. "Hello Lulu, miss me?" He asked with a smirk on his face, he had a pony with a cloak on his shoulder, with the snap of his talons I found the room had be tuned upside down, as I tried to catch myself from falling. He spoke again "Why so serious?" he asked as he produced some chocolate milk out of nowhere and drank the glass and threw the milk aside to explode on a guard "Aren't you glad I'm back?" he asked with an insane chuckle. He then got closer to me as he spoke in a deadly tone that would cause a Royal Guard to cringe "Go ahead warn Celestia of my return, let her bring her little "Elements of Harmony" because even they can't save Equestria now." He then said in a mocking tone "I will enjoy watching your kingdom crumble and pull its self apart from chaos, now go on," He said as he waved his lion paw in Celestia's direction "warn your sister, I always enjoy a good show." He said with a chuckle, as I ran to my sister's room I heard laughter from my room.

{Peridot's POV}

I walked into the Royal Guard Head Quarters to speak with Col Dumas he had another task for me and my small squad. I knocked on the door "Enter" I heard on the other side as I walked in I saw many awards and even a picture of the Col with Princess Celestia herself. In the middle was Col Dumas looking over papers but even then he held a sense of authority, "What do you need me to do sir?" I asked after saluting, he looked up and it looked like he was thinking, "Well Corporal there is supposed to be a field trip to the Canterlot Gardens, for the filly's and colts of the Ponyville School, but there has been a change of plans, I need you to inform them that the Canterlot Gardens are off limits right now." He said in a tone that held no emotion at all "Take Pfc Star Charmer and Pvt Buckwheat with you, dismissed." He said as he waved me away. When I started to walk away I began to think, why would they cancel that field trip? "Maybe Celestia is having a party there? No it can't be, she cares about every ponies education no matter how old or young, hmm maybe something happened in the gardens. Whatever I can think about it later, right now I got to complete the task at hoof." I though as I walked towards the barracks.

I walked into the barracks and found Buckwheat playing poker, I tapped him on the shoulder and told him what we need to do, he nodded and when to his bunk to put on his armor, telling Star however was going to be a bit harder as the mares had their own separate barracks, I when over and knocked and told them the situation and I need star, they said ok as star came forward and nodded her head. I stood outside both barracks and waited for my squad mates, when they final came I told them the situation. "Ok so we are going to the Ponyville School House to" but before I could finish I got covered in water, I simply sighed until I saw it wasn't water, but…chocolate milk? "What's going on? Is this some sort of prank?" I asked both Star and buckwheat with a bit of rage in my voice, until Star spoke up "Um you might want to look above you." She said looking about as awestruck as Buckwheat. I looked up and saw that it was a cloud, but a pink cloud and it moved on its own without any pegasi moving it, but the strangest part was that it was raining chocolate milk. My jaw hanged open until Buckwheat closed it and said "We need to tell the Col about this, this isn't normal at all." He said with extreme concern in his eyes, "We do, just give me a sec to figure it out, maybe it's a trick?" I said to Buckwheat, this is pure chaos, but what type of magic could cause this? I sat down to process all this info I then looked to my side and saw a herd bunny's running in my direction, they looked normal enough until I saw their legs were five times their own size, I jumped out of the way just in time to see the bunny's trample anything in their way. I stood up and wiped dirt off myself, I looked to the side and saw a Royal guard running towards us, he was out of breath and handed me a note before running off, I then unfolded the note and skimmed over "Cpl Peridot The town is in complete chaos, we need to contain this before it's too late, Peridot, Something big has happened and I have sent a similar notice to other squads in the area meet up at the town hall along with the rest of the town." After I finished the letter I looked back at Star and Buckwheat and told them what we need to do.

When we arrived we saw other squads were coming too and Col Dumas was with the mayor next to a podium she then tapped the microphone and everypony looked up expecting an answer to all the confusing things that have been going on. "Everypony, you may want to know what's going well I'm going to tell you," She looked a bit while saying the Lord of Chaos has been released, Discord is free." She said as some ponies gasped while other began to mutter among them self's in disbelief, I felt as my whole body had gone numb.

{Amethyst's POV a few hours earlier}

I woke up to a knocking at my door, I stretched and got up to see who it was as I walked down the steps, as I came close the knocking became louder and more rapid I final yelled "Alright, alright I'm coming." When I opened the door I saw it was Twilight she looked a bit worried "Oh hi Twilight, what wrong?" I asked before being tugged along by her towards a royal chariot and I got on with her and we began to fly towards Canterlot, by this point I'm very confused "What's wrong Twilight?" I asked her, she finally turned her head and explained "Discorded has been released!" She yelled at me "What?! That's impossible princess Luna and Celestia encased him in stone, he couldn't have gotten out!" I yelled partly from being scared "But he did and now he's causing chaos all around Equestria." She said in response "Then why brings me?" I asked "Well Princess Celestia sent a letter and wanted to bring you as well." She replied I was very confused why bring me, only the elements of harmony could stop discord, I was about to think deep into the matter but then we arrived at Canterlot and Twilight grabbed my hoof and ran with me not far behind.

When I got inside the castle I saw the others talking with the princesses "Princess Luna!" I shouted and ran to her and received a hug "Oh hello Amethyst I wish we could I met over better conditions but well you already know, Discord has been released." She said with a sadden tone. "Um excuse me but….um who is Discord?" asked Fluttershy just as Celestia was about to answer a voice spoke over her "That would be me my dear Fluttershy." I looked up on the glass window showing the main six with the elements as a Draconequus sat atop the head of Twilight. Then Celestia yelled to Twilight "Twilight Quickly get the Elements and use them on Discord." Then Discord began to laugh "Not so fast my little ponies." He said as he pulled out five necklaces and a single tiara "You'll never get away with this, Discord!" Yelled Celestia "Oh Celestia I'd forgotten how grim you can be, it's really quiet boring." He said with a bored tone "Hey! Nopony insults the princess!" She said as she crashed into the glass, earning a chuckle from Discord "Oh, you must be Rainbow Dash, famed for her loyalty, the Element of Harmony you represent." As he looked over the group he named off their element and their strengths until he came across me "Hmm you're not an Element who are you?" He asked a bit confused "That's my student, Amethyst, Discord she's here to help bring you down!" She said with confidents in her voice "Well this is a bit of a surprise I planned the game for only six ponies, but I do love a good surprise." He said with a smirk "What game?" Celestia asked "Ah yes I haven't told you yet to get the Elements back follow this riddle, to retrieve your missing Elements, just make sense of this change of events. Twists and turns are my master plan. Then find the Elements back where you began." He then laughed as he disappeared.

Fluttershy looked visible scared and was shaking "Can we go home now?" in a scared voice "What do you reckon he meant? Twists and turns and ending back where we started?" Applejack asked Confused Then Twilight Spoke up "Twists and turns... twists and turns... twists and turns! That's it! I bet Discord hid the Elements in the palace labyrinth!" She said as if she had just made a major discovery, Princess Celestia nodded her head in agreement and said "Good luck, my little ponies. The fate of Equestria is in your hooves." "Thanks, Princess. We won't let you down." Twilight said back as we ran to the Castle labyrinth. When we arrived I saw it as a huge hedge maze "So we have to get to the center?" I asked Twilight but before she could reply she was interrupted by Fluttershy asking "W-we have to go in there?" She asked sounding very scared "Nope! Dopey Discord forgot about these babies! I'll just do a quick flyover and we'll have the Elements in no time. My wings!" when she noticed that her wigs were gone Fluttershy also saw she lost her wings, "Twilight? What's going on?" I asked in a scared voice then she screamed "Your horn it's gone!" She said I felt above my head to find I was missing my horn and I saw she didn't have hers either "So is your horn!" I yelled back quickly very scared, she felt and screamed and rarity did the same, by the time we all found out we lost our horns and wings we were all screaming, until Discord showed up.

He was laughing like crazy "You–You should see the looks on your faces. Priceless!" he said while flicking a tear out of his eye I was boiling with rage "Give us our wings and horns back!" Twilight said seeming vey pissed off then Discord responded "You'll get them back in good time. I simply took them to ensure there's no cheating. You see, this is the first rule of our game: no flying, and no magic, even if you're not an Element" He said while looking at me "First rule?" Rainbow Dash asked "The second rule is everypony has to play or the game is over, and I win. Good luck, everypony!" He said before disappearing and laughing. I looked over at Twilight who then spoke up "Never fear, girls. We have each other!" Then the others joined in before we headed in then as we took our first step hedge walls came in-between us I then heard Twilights voice over the screams "Stay calm, girls! Everypony head to the middle as fast as you can, and we'll regroup there!" I then heard every pony confirming they understood "Alright see you girls in the center!" I yelled before heading into the maze.

As I walked though out the maze I kept an eye for anything out of the ordinary as I saw a figure approach me it was Princess Luna "Princess!" I said happy to see a friendly face until I came closer and saw the expression of anger and disgust her face held "What do you want, you failure!" The last word struck me harder than a hoof to the face "W-what do you mean?" I asked a bit scared, hurt, and confused "What I mean is you make a mistake more often than Celestia smiles, I only sent you away because I can stand to be around you!" She said with disgust in her voice, I felt my eyes watered "B-but" "No but's Amethyst, you are a Failure, I'm leaving I cannot stand the sight of you!" I tried to respond but no words came out it felt as if my own heart had been torn out. I sat down with hot tears streaming down my face as I was sobbing, I heard something appear behind me and whisper something into my ear "When there is a chance of failure, it's better to do nothing at all." As I felt something touch the back of my head as this happened I felted worthless and pathetic, but most of all I was a failure, to all my friends, my family, my home, and most of all my teacher as I quietly cried in my own self-pity.

I heard the hedge behind me fall and a voice filled the air "Amethyst! What's wrong? Are you alright?" Twilight asked as I sobbed 'I'm just a failure." I quietly said with my eyes closed, "Come on we have to defeat Discord." She said in a quiet voice, I got up and walked with Twilight, when all of a sudden the all the hedge walls fell and Discord came out with an annoyed expression on his face "Well, well, well. Somepony broke the, no wings, no magic, rule. Games over, my little ponies and you didn't find your precious elements. Looks like we might be due for a big old storm of chaos!" he said with an insane laugh.